From: Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:45:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831194547.GA5605@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the
> password they've issued me has a '!' and a '&' character in it. I
> tried escaping those characters like this:
>
> wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt
>
> but then it tells me the password isn't correct. How can I use a
> password like that with wput?
>
Maybe you can try putting the username and password combination in a .wputrc
file?
W
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 18:50 [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Grant
2007-08-31 19:22 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-08-31 21:20 ` Grant
2007-09-01 1:45 ` Alex Schuster
2007-09-01 12:08 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-08-31 19:45 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2007-08-31 20:38 ` Alex Schuster
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